Google Analytics

About Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a service provided by Google that keeps detailed statistics about website traffic and mobile applications traffic. More information can be found in this page and this page

Mailing Lists Configuration

Google Analytics tracking is an option of the mailing list. It’s setting will affect all campaigns sent from the mailing list. It is disabled on new mailing lists by default. The setting can be updated when creating the mailing list or after it’s been created.

Follow these steps to enable and configure Google Analytics tracking:

While creating a new list or editing an existing one, scroll to the Google Analytics section :

Click the YES radio button for Google Analytics Enabled. This will display a list of options required to track open and click events.

Fill in the tracking id field using the value in your Google Analytics account

Fill in Source field. If you track multiple mailing lists on the same analytics account, the mailing list name is a good candidate for this.

If you want to track clicks to specific domains from your campaigns activate restrict domain list and enter the domain or domains that you want to track in the tracking domains text box.

Google Analytics Statistics

Subscribers interactions are tracked via Google Analytics using two different methods:

Every click is recorded as a page visit to the link that is being tracked.

Every open/view is recorded as an event, using the event interface.

Click tracking

When a subscriber clicks on a link, Studio will redirect the browser to the URL, appending campaign parameters used for website tracking. These parameters are:

This information will complement what Analytics gathers from the browser and other sources, which makes it possible to analyse campaigns assigning goals and monetary value to some interactions. It is also possible to follow the user flow from each email campaign and many other possibilities.

This screenshot shows the subscribers’ flow through the page, using the campaign value as the primary dimension. It shows how each campaign generated visits to different parts of the website.

Open tracking

When a subscriber opens or views an email we send an event to Google Analytics with the tracking code that was configured in the mailing list.